Weymouth teen to appear on Fox's 'So You Think You Can Dance'

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Jun 25, 2017 at 3:35 PMJun 25, 2017 at 3:43 PM

Zane Razzaq The Patriot Ledger

WEYMOUTH – Kingston native Kaylee Millis grew up playing several sports, including basketball, soccer, and track. At 8 years old, her parents decided to enroll her in a dance class at the Pembroke School of Performing Arts to “see what else [she] could do.”

“Immediately after that dance class, I fell in love with everything about dance,” said Millis, 19. “I came home and told my parents that was all I wanted to do.”

Millis will be able to show the world her passion on national television on Tuesday. Her audition on Fox’s reality dance competition show “So You Think You Can Dance” is set to air this Tuesday at 8 p.m. The show, hosted by Cat Deely, is in its 14th season. Judges are Mary Murphy, Nigel Lythgoe and Vanessa Hudgens.

“I’ve been watching the show since I was a little kid,” said Millis, who lives in Weymouth. “I’ve seen such amazing dancers come out of the show. I always thought, ‘I’m going to do that someday.’”

Millis said that when she first started learning dance, she mostly learned styles like ballet and classic jazz. When she got older, she began to experiment with hip-hop and contemporary. Today, she mixes classic with modern to develop her own personal style.

“When you see me dance, I basically go from really big movements to all of a sudden very small, intricate, almost conversational movements and that’s what really shapes my dancing to become my own,” said Millis.

Having grown up feeling different, Millis said she incorporates the message of feeling different in her dance.

“A big thing that I stand for is being able to relate to as many different people as possible regardless of sexuality, race, how you dress, whatever, where you live,” said Millis. “I’m really into speaking to the underdog, making sure that people understand that if you love something enough and are willing to put everything into it that the outcome sooner or later will be success.”

Millis trained at the Gold School in Brockton, which also produced sibling dance phenoms David (“Hamilton”) and Jacob (“Newsies”) Guzman and actor Kenny Wormald (“Footloose”).